Nerd Confession Time

I pride myself on being a nerd. Wholockian, Trekker, whatever we Star Wars fans are supposed to call ourselves, etcetera.

Confession time: Sometimes I feel like a total wannabe nerd. Wanna know why?

A) I don't like Firefly. I'm sorry to all the hardcore Whedonites out there. I tried. I couldn't get into it. I think I survived four or five episodes before I bailed.

B) I can't draw. I don't contribute to the world of fanart because I can't draw a straight line with a ruler. My brain cannot wrap itself around concepts needed in order to actually draw anything. In high school, the first time I had to draw a face, the male face looked like a monkey. And a badly drawn monkey at that.

C) I don't really write fanfiction either. I wrote one brief little short story after an episode of Bones. (And it's brief. Probably not even a page so more like a scene.) But that's been it for fanfiction. I'd rather spend my time writing something that could actually be published.

D) I like video games. But I don't live and breathe video games. In fact, when I had an N64 I only ever beat one of my games. (Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, if you're wondering.) I had Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I freed all the sages, built the bridge to the castle, but never crossed to fight the big boss. (I had three other games that were beat-able and never got anywhere close to beating them.) With the Wii, I have five games that are beat-able. I've beaten one of them twice. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is sitting there waiting for me to beat the palace of twilight and then the big bad of the whole game. Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, I'm stuck in the first temple. I died a zillion times fighting the boss (motion controls make it tough, man) and left the temple to regroup. Now I can't get back to the boss room. Lego Star Wars is tougher than Lego LOTR (the latter of which I beat 100% twice). And Rise of the Guardians I died early on.

*hugs nerd card close* You don't get to take it away from me. It's mine. Because despite what I wrote above, I'm still a nerd. The people who pin to the geek board on pinterest get me. Even if I don't always get every reference they make. And even if I never beat another video game, it's a place of refuge. Just like books.

Keeping My Geek Card

Hello.  My name is Stephanie and I'm a geek.

Actually, I don't know if you can classify me as such.

Reasons I don't get to keep my geek card:

~I don't know how to code or anything like that.
~I'm good with a computer, but only to a certain extent.
~I physically cannot make the "Live long and prosper" sign.
~I don't get Firefly. I'm trying. But it's not grabbing me.
~I've never seen an episode of BBC's Sherlock, CBS' The Big Bang Theory, and most of Doctor Who.
~I can't identify most of the superhero alphabet, the Star Wars alphabet is hit and miss, and the Sci-Fi alphabet isn't so hot either.
~I've never watched the animated Clone Wars series.
~I've never seen the original Star Trek series, the final episode of ST: TNG, most if any of DS9.

Reasons I get to keep my geek card:

~I'm almost through the first season of Doctor Who (2005 season, not the 1970s)
~I know the Ewok's name is Wicket.
~I don't buy George Lucas' explanation for Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan becoming Alec Guiness' Obi-Wan in a mere 16 years
~I miss Frank Oz.
~I have the Star Trek: The Next Generation theme on a CD in my car.
~I still have all my old CDs despite having all sorts of digital music players.
~Greedo didn't shoot first. Han didn't give him the chance. (Edited to add that one. :D)

Geek card image found here